6 Reasons It’s A Good Thing ‘The Hobbit’ Is Being Split Into Three Movies

As a person who writes jokes about nerd stuff online, I know it’s my duty to be really super snarky about Peter Jackson splitting The Hobbit into three movies, but I just can’t do it. The fact is, I think it might be a good idea. At the very least, I don’t think it’s going to turn out any worse than The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Here’s why The Hobbit being made into three movies is going to be okay…

About The Same Amount of Stuff Happens In The Hobbit as in Lord of the Rings

Yeah, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is around five-times the length of The Hobbit, but that’s mostly because it’s massively padded out with obsessively detailed descriptions, complicated political intrigue and the literary equivalent of RPG side quests.

If you just run down the major events and action scenes, more or less the same amount of stuff happens. If The Lord of the Rings were written like The Hobbit, the former would be about 800 pages shorter.

How did we put up with this for nine hours?

I’d Rather Spend Three Movies With Bilbo Than Frodo

He gets the whole “throw the ring in Mt. Doom” thing done in the end, but for the majority of the Rings trilogy Frodo is mostly just whiny and useless. Even though Frodo has had five times as many words written about him, I still think of Bilbo as the real “hero” of the family.

Bilbo’s relatable, likeable, smart and at times gets to be a genuine hero — and he doesn’t have a “Sam” trailing around behind him the whole time doing all the hard work for him. Also, Martin Freeman > Elijah Wood.

all that could be dome it two movies and fuck you for being contrary. whatever its happening, but twelve months between each film? fuck that. they could do 6 months easy. these films already look way better, aesthetically, than lord of the rings. though.

and what the fuck man. frodo had the entire fucking world on his shoulders and a death sentence around his neck, he was just a kid. cut him some slack.

Eh, if I was in charge would I have made it two movies? Probably. Just saying, I don’t think things are going to be as bad as some are predicting, and that having three movies will actually benefit in some ways.

As for Frodo vs. Bilbo — yeah, Frodo had all this stuff thrust upon him and never let anyone forget it. Bilbo went to go steal a dragon’s treasure *just cuz*. Awesomeness advantage goes to Bilbo.

The entire section of the book with Tom Bombadil was completely pointless. Literally, there was no reason for that section to exist at all unless the publishers were demanding a certain page count and Tolkien stuck that in there to make them happy.

I’m not really concerned about this, but I am concerned that if it is successful (and it will be), then when Hollywood reboots the Twilight franchise in about five years, the new series will be twelve movies long.

If anyone needs me, I will be off busy writing a new Star Trek: TNG fanfiction about the adventures that LaForge and Data had when they got stuck in holodeck during a simulation of “The North American East Coast/West Coast Hologram Wars of the early 21st Century.”

Wow. Fantastic points. I couldn’t agree more about Bilbo vs Frodo. I just wish some of the dwarves didn’t look so…cartoonish. Gimli from the LOTR Trilogy looked fantastic. I wish they followed suit in the Hobbit.

I’d love to know who the fucking idiot was that thought “Hey this will make a great post! It’s not dumb at all, and definitely isn’t 1 billion percent wrong!” Because that guy or girl needs to go right ahead and fuck him or herself. This is beyond retarded.